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Swiss Army Nerd
@wesmorgan1
net.old-fogey, full-stack troubleshooter, Wireshark guy, musician, voracious reader, tech/politics/history, IBM-retiree HCLite, Geek-of-All-Trades. He/him.
Nov 21, 2017 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
Some of you may have seen or heard me refer to myself as a net.old-fogey. I usually use that term in a humorous sense, but this topic is so important to me that I'm going to use it seriously. (1/x) First, understand this about me - I've spent most of the last four decades around computers and communications. I punched cards on an IBM System/370 (and a System/3), and I've booted PDPs from paper tape. (2/x)